China is the country with the highest population and second-largest economy with approx. $14 trillion in the world. China embarks on the fastest growing economy in the last 2 decades based on their mass production strategy with cheaper prices, led China to become the manufacturing hub of the world. However, saturated domestic markets and changing geopolitical conditions with the rise of India given a pause to China’s momentum of growth in this decade of 2011 – 2020. In this quest of giving stimulus to the Chinese economy, President Xi Jinping has given an idea of “One Belt One Road (OBOR)” which was basically an ultramodern blueprint of the ancient “Silk route” which has connected East to West during the time of Han Dynasty. Later on, OBOR has been termed as Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which has mainly 1 belt that covers the landscape of China, the middle east, central Asia to Europe, and 1 maritime road moved from South China sea to the pacific ocean to India ocean. BRI is a win-win formula for China and some of 65 partner countries which include the development of infrastructure, transportation, and energy generation and movement. It looks like a trading and supply chain initiative encapsulated with global strategic and geopolitical agendas of China to secure strategic resources and assets, get logistics and military access to strategic ports in partner countries, and influencing them with the debt-trap model. Many powerful and globally important countries like Russia, the USA, European Union, and India have raised their concern about BRI for lack of transparency, debt trap for small countries, and tool for China’s expansionist agenda. However, it is definitely China’s biggest supply chain game plan of the century which can help China to become the next superpower if handled properly and if China fails to handle it then it will be a “Blackhole” for China’s and partner countries' economy.
